Age Father abandons family. Age Mother leaves Kinan in charge of her ten-year-old sister. Age Begins sex work to support herself and her sister. Age Moves to Ushuaia to work at the brothel Sheik. Age Divorces, returns to sex work. Employed again in Ushuaia at Sheik. Age After two years at Sheik, brothel raided by police. Leaves sex work again. Age Successfully sues former owners and managers of Sheik. Defendants appeal. Age US State Dept. Childhood and family[ edit ] Kinan's family had enough money to provide her a good education, but her life began to spiral downhill when her father began to abuse her mother.
Kinan has said that her mother, along with her grandmother and her aunts, were prostituted. In this context, it could mean either a small, wretched apartment, or a brothel. Kinan was raped at age fourteen.
Her parents separated when she was fifteen and her younger sister was nine, and her father stopped supporting the family. Her father refused to help her. A friend suggested working at Aries, a brothel run out of a private apartment. When my mom leaves I'm left in charge of my sister, who is a lot younger than me. There came a time when we did not have anything to eat, we had nowhere to live, it was an extreme situation, I was left with a small child and I was facing that situation.
It was then that a girl makes me an offer in a place X, and tells me that we could go to a private apartment where they were hosting bachelor parties, it was like a massage place, it all seemed very strange. At that time I did not go, until the situation was so extreme that I was up to my neck and one day I found myself ringing the bell at the place that had been pointed out to me.
It's very disgusting. It's those memories that you try to bury under everything else. She says She says that he lived with her and asked her for money. He also threatened to get a lawyer and take her younger sister away from her. She said to me "I was in the south, you earn very good money, there are fishing boats, many foreigners, you can charge in dollars, you earn double because you are paid best. After a while she rented a place and sent for her sister, paying for her school, English classes, computers, clothing, and food.
